The Board found that there was CUE in the RO's failure to grant service connection for donor site scars of both thighs from December 30, 1953. As a result, the effective date is now established as December 30, 1953.
The deciding factor: CUE was found due to the incomplete examination report and the RO's failure to consider all chronic disabilities found in the service records.
- Claimed conditions
- Donor site scars
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 23, 2000
- Citation
- 0013555
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